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1868 April 2 Letter to Samuel Stanworth

Title

1868 April 2 Letter to Samuel Stanworth

Description

Sixty five dollars is the cost to emigrate one person. An arrangement is offered to emigrate Stanworth's relative.

Type

Correspondence

Sender

Brigham Young

Recipient

Samuel Stanworth

Date

1868 April 2

Location

Great Salt Lake City
Kane County, Utah

Subject

Emigration
Financial Matters
Personal

 

Salt Lake City,
April 2, 1868

Elder Samuel Stanworth,
Duncan's Retreat, Kane County, U. T.

Dear Brother:-

In reply to your's of the 21st ult., I have to inform you that $65 00/100 in greenbacks is the amount estimated for an adult from Liverpool to the terminus of the railroad, and if you will turn over the $20 due you for road work, authorizing me to turn the $20 due you in the telegraph, and forward your note for $25 00/100, with the name and place of your wife's cousin, and be responsible for the additional expense from the terminus of the railroad to this City, I will forward her name to be brought this Season, if in time.

Your Brother in the Gospel,
Brigham Young